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TRUMP’s price has surged by more than 50% since Friday after its top 297 holders were promised an exclusive gala dinner with President Trump.
Trading volume has dropped even as price climbed, and the Chaikin Money Flow remains below zero. This signals capital outflows despite the price gains.
Perpetual futures funding has been negative since late January, with short positions dominant across major exchanges.
President Trump’s official meme coin, TRUMP, has surged more than 50% since Friday.
This comes after its official website announced that the coin’s top 297 holders would be invited to an exclusive gala luncheon with the president next month.
The announcement has yet to be confirmed directly by the president, but it has already ignited a speculative frenzy across the meme coin market.
TRUMP’s price has surged from a five-month low of $2.70 — where it traded before the news broke on Friday — to a high of $4.35 earlier today.
While the token is still logging a 2% uptick on the day, the trend beneath the surface tells a more complicated story.
A Rally Without Conviction
Despite TRUMP’s price rising steadily over the past several days, trading volume has consistently declined, indicating a negative divergence.
Per Santiment, while TRUMP’s price has gained since Friday, its daily trading volume has plummeted by 63%.
Official Trump Price and Volume | Credit: Santiment
In a healthy rally, when an asset’s price appreciates, trading volume rises as well. On the other hand, when volume falls as price climbs, a negative divergence is formed.
This signals a rally driven by speculative demand, which, in TRUMP’s case, is due to the announcement of an exclusive dinner invite.
The falling daily trading volume signals little market-wide buying interest, which puts TRUMP’s new gains at risk of reversal.
Moreover, while TRUMP’s price has posted double-digit gains since Friday, its Chaikin Money Flow (CMF), a key indicator that tracks capital inflows and outflows, has declined, forming a bearish divergence that puts the rally at risk.
A bearish divergence occurs when an asset’s price continues to climb while its CMF indicator trends downward. This means that less capital flows into the asset despite the price growth.
Such divergences typically precede pullbacks, suggesting that TRUMP’s short-term momentum could weaken if buying activity does not recover.
The CMF currently sits at -0.03, remaining below the zero line at press time. What makes this particularly telling is that despite repeated attempts to reclaim positive territory since Friday, the indicator has been unable to sustain a break above the zero line.
Each push toward neutral has been rejected, with CMF sliding back into negative territory almost immediately.
The fact that this outflow pressure has held firm even as TRUMP’s price climbed more than 50% suggests that high-conviction participants are not backing the move.
Perpetual futures funding for TRUMP has remained negative throughout the rally, meaning that derivatives traders are also not convinced the rally will hold.
According to Coinglass, TRUMP’s funding rate has been negative without interruption since late January. Even as the meme coin’s price has climbed back above $4.00 since Friday, the rate remains below zero.
The funding rate is a periodic payment between traders in perpetual futures contracts to keep the contract price aligned with the spot price.
When the funding rate is positive, there is a higher demand for long positions. This means more traders are betting the asset’s price will go up.
On the other hand, a negative funding rate indicates that, across all major exchanges, short positions are dominant, suggesting that more traders are betting prices will decline.
The consistency of TRUMP’s negative funding since Friday confirms that the rally lacks leveraged long conviction. This further exposes it to the risk of a reversal if the speculative demand that currently fuels its price uptick fades.
TRUMP’s Rally Is Running on Fumes
The absence of organic demand behind TRUMP’s rally leaves it vulnerable to a near-term correction. On the daily chart, the first line of defense sits at the 0.382 Fibonacci retracement level of $3.88.
A breach of this level would signal the bulls are losing their grip on the recovery structure.
Should that level fail, the next downside target is at $3.43. A close below that would erase most of the gains since Friday and open the door toward the swing low of $2.70.
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Abiodun Oladokun is a Research Analyst at CCN, where he covers cryptocurrency markets with a focus on on-chain analysis, technical assessments, and emerging trends across decentralized finance (DeFi), real-world assets (RWA), artificial intelligence (AI), decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePIN), Layer 2s, and meme coins.
Prior to CCN, he served as a Senior On-Chain Analyst at BeInCrypto, producing market reports spanning diverse crypto sectors.
Before that, he conducted technical analysis and market assessments of various altcoins at AMBCrypto, where he also contributed long-form quarterly research papers on DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, and scaling architectures, leveraging on-chain platforms including Messari, Santiment, DefiLlama, and Dune Analytics.
He began his crypto career as a research analyst at SixthSense DAO, developing blockchain forensic tools to trace the history of stolen assets.
Abiodun is a lawyer called to the Nigerian Bar and the founder of Ilé Ijó, a Lagos-based electronic dance music collective.
